Re: Goo prophylaxis:consensus

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Fri Sep 05 1997 - 06:42:55 MDT


Hal Finney <hal@rain.org> writes:

> I can't imagine a plausible situation in which an entity
> with the kinds of powers that nanotech confers is going to find itself
> needing access to information from its biological past. This may be
> a failure of imagination on my part though. What kinds of things could
> you see happening where it would need this information?

Art? The tendency to never throw away anything that could someday become
useful?

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